Goyal may travel back to UK to wrap up FTA

COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY minister Piyush Goyal may travel to London again later this week before he returns to India from the ongoing three-nation foreign tour, to iron out a few irritants in the free trade agreement (FTA) with the UK, according to sources.

- MUKESH JAGOTA

The minister might formally declare the much-delayed pact ready for signing along with his UK counterpart, as he visits the island nation which he left for Norway as late as Tuesday.

According to sources, last-minute differences over the wording of some of the provisions of the trade and investment agreements of the FTA led to postponement of announcement about conclusion of the negotiations.